Word: dusseldorfers
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...characters do their womanly best to quiet the stream, the modernistic hero always breaks it into ripples, rapids, finally a plunging waterfall. Pierre Radier is the love child of Madame Azai's, a leopard-trainer traveling with a circus in the Middle West. Of his father, Moise, a Dusseldorf banker, Pierre knows nothing but what his mother tells him, but the restless ambition in his blood testifies that he is a chip off the old block. Though he is an accomplished performer under the tents, the circus life does not appeal to him. His mother forgets past troubles...
...Hyphen 11 got away first into the rising sun. Ten minutes later the Question Mark gave chase, overtook Lebrix & Doret beyond Brussels. Near Dusseldorf a fuel line became clogged and the Question Mark made a forced landing. Lebrix & Doret, whose plane had no radio, pushed on into dirty weather over Russia in the belief that their rival still led them...
...Killer Kuerten was sentenced to death nine times for a fiendish series of bloodlust killings. Dusseldorf children, who had been going to school in vans guarded by armed policemen, played in the streets again. Peter Kuerten confessed all his crimes, muttered that when his head throbbed he just had to kill...
Twenty atrocious murders in a few weeks, ten more slashings have reduced the citizens to a state of mind in which respectable women were to be seen in Lutheran Churches screaming that Satan again walks the Earth, imploring Heaven's protection. For several weeks Dusseldorf schoolchildren have been toddling to kindergarten or walking fearfully to gymnasium (high school) accompanied by armed posses or riding in busses guarded by policemen with cocked Mauser pistols Entirely baffled, the Dusseldorf police recently sent for Berlin detectives whose methods-typical of the deepest dyed Austro-German psychiatric and psychoanalytical school-have been scaring...
...planned to slide down it to the top of the Graf Zeppelin. The covering of the airship is of fabric. He might have broken through and caused disaster when she was in the air. The stowaway who crossed from Germany to the U. S., one Albert Buschko, 19, Dusseldorf baker's apprentice, was sent home on the Hamburg-American liner Thuringia, ignominiously...